Brian Williams to join MSNBC after losing anchor role. — Transcript

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1. 0:00Brien Williams to join MSNBC after
2. 0:02losing anchor role US news anchor
3. 0:04brighten Williams will not return to his
4. 0:06role at NBC Nightly News but instead
5. 0:08join the Cable News Network MSNBC to
6. 0:11cover breaking news Mr Williams was
7. 0:13suspended in February after reports that
8. 0:16he had embellished his Recollections
9. 0:18about the Iraq War Lester Holt who had
10. 0:21been filling in during Mr Williams
11. 0:22suspension will take over the slot
12. 0:25permanently Mr Holt becomes the first
13. 0:27African-American man to leave the top
14. 0:29evening news program I'm determined to
15. 0:32earn back their trust Mr Williams said
16. 0:34of viewers on Thursday Mr Williams is
17. 0:37scheduled to appear on the Today's Show
18. 0:39on Friday morning to further explain his
19. 0:41new role Mr Williams who was the face of
20. 0:44the top rated US news program since 2004
21. 0:48often spoke on chat's shows of being
22. 0:50shot down in a helicopter in Iraq but in
23. 0:53early 2015 veterans who were aboard the
24. 0:55helicopter began refuting his account
25. 0:57over social media Mr Williams and the
26. 1:00network were forced to apologize I made
27. 1:03a mistake in recalling the events of 12
28. 1:05years ago Mr Williams said in February I
29. 1:08want to apologize I said I was traveling
30. 1:11in an aircraft that was hit by RPG
31. 1:13rocket propelled grenade fire I was
32. 1:16instead in the following aircraft an
33. 1:18internal NBC investigation found Mr
34. 1:21Williams may have embellished other
35. 1:22stories Mr Williams had signed the
36. 1:255-year contract in 2014 before the
37. 1:27Scandal for the past few weeks Mr
38. 1:30Williams and NBC Universal the network
39. 1:32corporate parent have been negotiating
40. 1:35new terms for the embattled
41. 1:41newsman